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colour ; this tint also runs up each web from the edge to about half way up 

 the foot, forming a dark mark in the web nearer to the two external toes 

 than to the middle one. The remaining portions of the webs are very pale 

 flesh-colour, slightly tinged with greenish. The gizzard of this specimen 

 was small but muscular, and remarkably roughened on the internal surface ; 

 its contents consisted of the homy jaws of about half a dozen small cuttle- 

 fish, the jaws varying in size from a si.xteenth to a quarter of an inch in 

 diameter. Similar remains of cuttle-fish have been found in the stomach 

 of the fulmar, =!= and Mr. Layard, in his ' Descriptive Catalogue of the Birds 

 of South Africa,' states (at p. 364) that a similar diet is in vogue amongst 

 the albatrosses of the Southern Seas, from the stomach of one of which he 

 took " a handful of hard, horny, parrot-billed-shaped jaws." — J. H. Gurney ; 

 Northrepj)s, January 19, 1874. 



Ornithology of the Orkneys. — Having spent many months, at all seasons 

 of the year, among the islands of Orkney, engaged in collecting specimens 

 of Natural History, and more especially of birds, and having taken great 

 trouble to procure information on the spot respecting the occurrence of rare 

 species, and in observing the life-histories of the more common kinds of 

 birds, I have been induced to prepare for publication a small work bearing 

 on the above subject ; and up to May next I shall be much indebted to any 

 readers of the 'Zoologist' for information of any kind whatever relating to the 

 Mammalia, birds, insects. Botany, &c., of the Orkneys. Please address : — 

 Captain Clark-Kennedy; Guards Club, Pall Mall, S.W. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



5th Jan. 1874. — Prof. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



Additions to the Library. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors : — ' Proceedings of the Koyal Society,' No. 147 ; presented by the 

 Society. ' Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 

 1873,' No. 2 ; by the Society. ' Catalogue of the Specimens of Hemiptera 

 Heteroptera in the Collection of the British Museum,' part viii., by Francis 

 Walker ; by the Trustees. ' On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects,' 

 by the Author, Sir John Lubbock, Bart. ' Contributions to a Knowledge 

 of the Curculionidse of the United States;' by the Author, George H. 

 Horn, M.D. ' Sixth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey 

 of the Territories embracing portions of Montana, Idaho, Wyomiug and 

 Utah; being a Report of Progress of the Explorations for the Year 1872,' 

 by F. V. Hayden, United States Geologist ; by the Author. ' Synopsis of 

 the Acrididse of North America,' by Cyrus Thomas, Ph.D. ; by the Author. 



* See note by Mr. J. H. Gui-ney, jun., in ' Zoologist' for 1868 (S. S. 1483). 



